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Traits

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Having reviewed three important engineering innovations of the last half century or so, let us now discuss various traits of innovators and of those who help others, such as their children, to become invention conscious.

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  1. The Herman Schneider Laboratory of Basic and Applied Science Research, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Winston E. Kock (Acting Director)

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© 1978 Plenum Press, New York

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Kock, W.E. (1978). Traits. In: The Creative Engineer. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8792-7_5

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